Improvement in handle-plates for door-latches



ryconsm. Handle-Plates for Door-Latch aentedMay13,1873. Y

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK GORBIN, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO P. a F.

OORBIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDLE-PLATES FOR DOOR-LATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,862, dated May 13,1873; application filed April 1-2, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK 001mm, of New Britain, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement inHandle-Plates for Door-Latches, of which the following is aspecification:

Latches for doors have been made with a plate having a handle attachedthereon, and with a projecting thumb piece above such handle. It isusual, in latches thus constructed, to employ a separate escutcheon,screwed to the face of the door; but these escutcheons, being small, areliable to get loose, and are difficult to securely attach or properlylocate with reference to the key-hole of the lock.

My invention is made for obviating these difficulties; and consists in ahandle-plate and escutcheon-plate in one piece of metal combined with abow-handle and thumb-lever.

1n the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of said plate and escutcheon,and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same partially in section.

The handle-plate a is extended in one piece to form the escutcheon b tothe key-hole c, and the bow-handle d is attached to this plate, and thethumb-lever 0 passes through a mortise in the plate above the handle.

This device is a new article of manufacture.

I claim as my invention The handle-plate a and escutcheon b made in onepiece of metal, and receiving the bowhandle d and thumb-lever e, as setforth.

Signed by me this 4th day of April, A. D.

F. OORBIN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES PEcK, J OHN R. SLoANE.

